Will Smith says working with digital double in Gemini Man raised philosophical questions

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With his name twice across the top of the film's poster, it is no spoiler alert to say that the main attraction of Gemini Man is star Will Smith's dual role - that of protagonist Henry Brogan and his digital double and antagonist code-named Junior. In the Lee Ang-directed...

But ever the comedian, he continued:"But now there is a 23-year-old digital version of myself, it is an avatar that exists, so I can use it for other films. And as it gets better and better, can a young Will Smith make a movie with a young Marlon Brando?""They didn't use my face and de-age it. They recreated it from nothing. There have been uses in the past where you take an actor and make him look a little younger. That is not what this is.

Then, using motion capture technology, with digital dots on his face and close-up high-res cameras on his helmet, Smith's facial expressions were recorded in a database.Some scenes in Gemini Man featuring both characters had to be shot separately - Smith as Brogan on the actual set , and Smith as Junior in the mo-cap stage."Off-camera, it opens up all of the ideas of your older self versus your younger self and decisions you made in the past and how they are affecting your life now.

"So I am realising now at 51, it has to become a lifestyle. I used to be able to do it for just two or three months. I would train really hard and then do whatever I wanted for the rest of the year. If it is not a lifestyle, I can't hold it."

 

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